Louisville, the county seat of Winston county,
has a population of three hundred and seventy-five, and is a thriving and progressive inland town with
no railroad connection. It contains several good store buildings, some sightly church edifices and a
creditable courthouse. The land on which the county buildings are located was donated to Winston county
by Jane Dodson.

The first newspaper issued in Winston county was the Times-Tablet and Mississippi Gazette,
published in 1844, at Louisville. The next paper was the Chronicle, established prior to the war,
and after the war came the Bulletin, and later the Banner, followed by the Index
and the Signal. The last mentioned paper was started by W. J. Newsom, present editor and
proprietor.

Louisville lodge No. 75, A. F. & A. M., was organized under a dispensation granted in 1845, and was
chartered January 10, 1846. Other lodges in the county are Webster lodge No. 205, Winstonville lodge
No. 277, and Perkinsville lodge.

In Winston the Masonic society, Odd Fellows, Grange, Alliance, etc., are represented. There are several
normal and low-grade schools throughout the county. At Louisville, Plattsburg and Betheden there are
churches of the Methodist, Baptist, old style Presbyterians, Cumberland Presbyterians, Catholic,
Lutheran and Campbellite or Christian denominations.